Moody v Steggles (1879) 12 Ch D 261

Written By Nicolas Heyes

Chancery Division

Basic Facts: A signboard advertising C’s public house had been on D’s house for 50 years. D sought to remove it.

Issue for the Court: When is a right sufficiently accommodated to be an easement?

Held: The court upheld the right of a property owner to display a sign on neighbouring land, establishing it as an easement due to its benefit to the dominant tenement.

  • Fry J determined that the easement to display a sign, although related to the business of the occupant, was sufficiently tied to the house and thus constituted an easement.

Nicolas Heyes
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